PresstimeFALL/WINTER 2014

Luddite: New Prints by Aaron Spangler

Opening Evening with the Artist Friday, October 10, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.

On view October 10 – November 15, 2014

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Aaron Spangler, The Wall, 2014, edition of 6, woodcut, 60 x 36 inches (paper size) HIGHPOINTPRINTMAKING.ORG

2 From Luddite: the Directors New Prints from Aaron Spangler

An event not to be missed… Opening Evening with the Artist: Friday, October 10, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. FIVE On view: October 10 – November 15, 2014 HP’s Building Birthday Bash Saturday, November 22, 6:00 –10:00 p.m.

Dear Friends, Highpoint Editions is proud to present work extends out from the hermetic environ Please join Highpoint to celebrate five Luddite: New Prints by Aaron Spangler. of the studio and into the communities with years in our beautiful building! We can’t Please join Highpoint for the opening which he is connected: from the local timber believe it has been five years at our reception and a chance to meet the artist industry with whom he collaborates, to the permanent home on Lake Street in the on Friday, October 10. The exhibition printers at Highpoint.” (Excerpted from heart of South . This party will will feature ten hand-printed woodcuts an essay by Eric Sutphin; Aaron Spangler: bring together the “team” that helped developed in collaboration between the Luddite at Highpoint Editions, August 2014.) shape HP2 — architects from James artist and Highpoint. Several of the prints Dayton Design, many creative individuals are monumental in scale. Primarily known for About Aaron Spangler: Aaron Spangler and businesses that contributed to the his sculptural work, Spangler is a virtuosic lives and works in Park Rapids, MN. He building project, board members past and self-taught sculptor of wood. He carves received a BFA from the Minneapolis College present, donors, funders and of course, we intuitively, incorporating subjects from of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN, and hope — YOU! his daily life and surroundings to create has received grants and fellowships from the compositions layered with political and McKnight Foundation, the State More information to be unveiled in the social meaning. Arts Board, and the Jerome Foundation. coming months, but here’s the basic plan: Aaron Spangler has been collaborating Spangler’s work is held in the collections of • Great Food, Drink and Music with Highpoint Editions over the past two The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Hammer • ONE NIGHT ONLY for event guests: years, carving his woodcuts from basswood Museum, and , among special prices on select HP Editions prints harvested and cut at the small, local Two others. Aaron Spangler is represented by • A silent auction to support HP’s Inlets sawmill near his home in Northern Zieher Smith & Horton Gallery, New York City. acclaimed Education & Community Minnesota. Some of these blocks are more programs than 4 feet by 8 feet — all were printed at HP by hand. The artist has developed a Be sure to RSVP soon…this event will sell rich vocabulary: an atmosphere, tonality out! Look for your invite mid-October, or and patterning unusual for woodcut that call Highpoint at 612.871.1326. emphasizes the medium’s physicality. Monumental or modest in scale, the images Ticket Options Available: all hover between emerging from the surface $175 (Collector Level) 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. and being embedded in it. As Spangler Early entrance to event giving Collector sees it: “Each of these pieces stand in their guests first choice of one night only own worlds, though consistent themes in HP Editions special print prices. Hors my work are present in all of them. Themes d’oeuvres, champagne, and Valet parking of rural chaos, personal paranoia, political included. Limited to 100 guests. anger, nature’s beauty and bounty, stoicism, severe religion, wellness and spiritual bliss.” $65 (Builder Level) 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. “In this series of large-scale woodcuts, Enjoy the evening of food, drink and music, Spangler exhibits his mastery (it is said plus special one night only print prices. one needs to clock 10,000 hours of labor Limited to 150 guests. in his or her trade to carry the title, and Spangler has been at it for nearly two Have a great Fall and hope to see you at decades) of carving, drawing and positive/ Aaron Spangler signing prints FIVE on November 22! negative spatial arrangements to this robust ensemble of prints. The immediate, in-

Carla McGrath, Executive Director your-face graphic quality of the medium is Major support: Cole Rogers, Artistic Director harnessed as a vehicle to deliver a series of and Master Printer prints which crackle with energy. Whether in sculpture or in these woodcuts, Spangler’s 3

Stand Out Prints 2014

Highpoint’s International Juried Exhibition Opening reception: Friday, September 5, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. On view: September 5 – October 4, 2014

quote marks, at once earnest and ironic, For the viewer, this plays out in hovering atop one of the nearly 800 entries reverse — looking, we peel back the lines for Stand Out Prints. I did not know the and layers of ink; the sleek or robust paper; artist’s name, but I did know that I was in the carved wood; the eye of the camera; trouble. The entries were problematically the artist’s hand. What we reach in the end good. It had quickly become apparent that if is the tiny, hard kernel of someone else’s I were to make a selection based simply on experience. But what we gain is our own. quality, exhibition visitors would be wading The whole point of printed matter is through knee-deep piles of prints piled that it is, at one and the same time, the on the floor. I needed to locate a theme object in hand and the place or person or from the multiple streams of content, style, time or emotion it represents. It gives us medium and approach running through here. And there. the entered works. There were many strong options: the environment; violence and injustice; memory and childhood; photographic imagery; non-photographic imagery. Again and again, however, what pulled me up short was a more ineffable quality: a concentration on a specific place, a specific moment in time — like a finger Ericka Walker, There, lithograph urgently pointed to say, “here.” This flew in the face of what we know to be true of Highpoint is pleased to announce the return our world — the exponential acceleration of Stand Out Prints, Highpoint’s juried of virtuality, the profusion of pixels without exhibition that takes place every two years. location, images without context, places See what’s happening in printmaking without substance. So it was fascinating. About Susan Tallman: Susan Tallman is an on an international scale. With submitted The prints chosen for this show all art historian who has written extensively on works from 46 states and international exhibit this sense of specific location. They the history and culture of the print, as well submissions from Canada, the UK, Australia, do so in landscapes and photogravures, as on issues of authenticity, reproduction Israel, Ireland and Latvia, this exhibition in portraits and abstractions, in six-foot- and multiplicity. She is Editor-in-Chief of offers 67 select impressions in contemporary wide etchings and three-inch-tall pochoirs. the international journal and website Art in printmaking from 63 artists. Highpoint was Sometimes the flavor is elegiac, sometimes Print, and her writing has appeared in Art in thrilled with the quality and quantity of the celebratory, sometimes sardonic. In America, Parkett, Public Art Review, Art on submitted work. Highpoint received 837 each case, the artist has grabbed from Paper, Print Quarterly, Arts Magazine and individual images submitted by 293 artists. the moving surface of time something many other publications. Her books include After considerable deliberation, juror Susan concrete — the opposite of a Snapchat. The Contemporary Print: from Pre-Pop to Tallman chose a cohesive exhibition that Perhaps this explains the profusion of Postmodern (Thames and Hudson),The highlights contemporary printmakers and notoriously laborious techniques: reduction Collections of Barbara Bloom (Steidl), and looks stellar in HP’s gallery spaces. linocuts strategically wrought in successive numerous museum catalogues. She has A special thanks to all the artists who stages from a single block; mezzotints lived and worked in New York, Amsterdam submitted work, and to our juror, Susan whose gleaming lights were burnished by and Berlin, and currently teaches in the Tallman. Please enjoy her juror statement hand from rough metal. In the era of zX Departments of Printmedia and Art History, that follows! zV, such acts of sustained attention and Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Juror Statement by Susan Tallman: protracted making become more markedly Institute of Chicago. “There.” The word caught my eye: its what they have always been: instruments for antiquated letter design and self-conscious understanding the world more deeply. HIGHPOINTPRINTMAKING.ORG

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Highpoint Editions

Artist Mungo Thomson with Master Printer Cole Rogers New Collaborations Ongoing

Mungo Thomson Jim Hodges Mungo Thomson began a collaboration was composed of twelve ‘pencils’ (painted Highpoint Editions has been collaborating with Highpoint Editions over the summer, sculptures fabricated in actual size) found on new prints with artist Jim Hodges. developing new work with Master Printer scattered across the ceiling as if launched Over the last 16 months the artist has Cole Rogers. Thomson is a Los Angeles– by a frustrated writer. Thomson’s art often been working and reworking the plates, based artist whose work explores mass focuses on banal objects or situations that making sensitive but decisive adjustments culture and cosmology. Thomson’s work somehow take on lives of their own, exhibit as he pursues and refines the images. Two addresses the small, everyday voids that some kind of contradiction, or are conceived beautiful, large intaglios with chine collé, exist within culture — the gaps, digressions by ‘going after bad ideas.’“ Siri Engberg, and relief printed elements are in the final and mistakes that are an inevitable part of Lifelike catalog, ©2012, Walker Art Center. stages: these are technically and visually institutions and everyday life. complex prints using cut plate elements, à Mungo worked on several ideas About Mungo Thomson: Mungo Thomson la poupée color inking, aquatint, drypoint, during his June visit, eventually paring lives and works in Los Angeles. He holds a scraping, spit bite and burnishing, combined them down to two distinct projects. The BA from University of California (Santa Cruz), with several layers of delicate hand cut chine artist is bringing his sharp observation attended the Whitney Museum Independent collé elements. Stay tuned for news about and love of questioning, investigation Study Program, and received an MFA from a publication date! and re-contextualizing of the familiar to the University of California (Los Angeles). Hodges’ art was the focus of a recent printmaking. One project in the works is a Thomson’s work is held in the permanent career survey co-organized by the Walker pair of large scale screen prints based on the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Center and the Dallas Museum of Art, TimeLife book series he has been working Art (Los Angeles), the Hammer Museum, the Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take. with. The second project is related to his Hirshhorn Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Utilizing diverse materials and media, money series… (NY), and the Whitney Hodges creates powerful connections with Thomson’s work was featured in the Museum of American Art among many others. audiences, transforming everyday materials Walker Art Center’s 2012 exhibition, Lifelike. into meditations on the beauty and fragility In Lifelike “his piece Between Projects of life. Hodges’ work has been the subject 5

Jim Hodges collaborating with HP Editions Artist Julie Buffalohead working at HP

Traveling Exhibitions of many exhibitions in the United States Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and Highpoint Editions prints have been on and Europe, and is held in major collections an MFA from Cornell University. Buffalohead view at Ascent Capital Management and around the world. has participated in numerous group and solo The McKnight Foundation this year, and we exhibitions. Don’t miss the survey of her work look forward to more off-site exhibitions Julie Buffalohead at the Minnesota Museum of American Art (on in 2015. It is wonderful to be able to share Julie Buffalohead has been in the studio view December 18, 2014 – February 22, 2015)! our visiting artists’ work with the broader working with Highpoint Editions to develop audiences these venues offer. a group of prints to be released and Visitors are welcome to view The Fine exhibited in Highpoint’s galleries in February Print Fairs Print: Artwork from Highpoint Editions at of 2015. She is working on a large scale, The McKnight Foundation’s Cynthia Binger especially for an artist’s first lithographs and Highpoint Editions looks forward to Boynton Lobby Gallery during the foundation’s developing a new format that emphasizes exhibiting at the Editions and Artists’ Books normal business hours. The exhibition will be the image’s pictorial narrative. These prints Fair in New York City, also known as the on display until December 10, 2014. draw upon her personal iconography — the E/AB Fair, once again in fall 2014. This year’s animal protagonists featured in her art delve fair will be held during New York’s Print into themes related to Native American Week (November 6 – 9), at 540 West 21st and, not to be missed… legend and history, politics, culture, power, Street in Chelsea. HP will feature work by parenting, and human experience. Sarah Crowner, David Rathman, and Aaron In conjunction with HP’s celebration of five This project is funded in part by a Spangler, along with other new editions. If years in our new building (see pg. 2 for MN State Arts Board Cultural Community you are in New York, please stop by and visit more details), Highpoint will be offering Partnership Grant — THANK YOU! our booth! special one-night only pricing on Highpoint Julie Buffalohead lives and works in St. Editions prints — join us at the party to take Paul, MN, and is a member of the Ponca advantage of this unusual opportunity to Tribe of Oklahoma. She holds a BFA from the snag some of your favorites at special offer prices worth celebrating! HIGHPOINTPRINTMAKING.ORG

6 Tales from the Co-op First person profiles of artists working in HP’s Cooperative

John Pearson I studied intaglio printmaking at MCAD as a side dish to my design major, and, perhaps predictably, drifted away from the practice until years later when I took a class at Highpoint to fill some dull winter evenings. The first night I walked in the door and inhaled the smell of ink I thought: I’m home! That was 10 years ago. Fast forward to today: It’s 9:15 on a Sunday morning, and I’m at Highpoint. (This is earlier than I show up at my “real” job.) I pretty much trot from drawer to sink to cubby to hot plate and the press. How much John Pearson, Ice Out, intaglio, 2014 can I get done this morning? I’m working on a couple different images in different states of done-ness; one is 2-color, the other just black, so I’m juggling three copper plates and muddles of ink. After a week of handwork at home — drawing, tracing, scraping, engraving, burnishing — when I get to the print shop I can’t wait to see the results. The results are, um, not quite there. Which is typical. My prints go through many states. Because I work for so many weeks on a print, I’m careful about the subject matter I commit myself to. On this recent Sunday I’m working with the natural history imagery that is typical for me: shells, ice formations, feathers, landscape. But waiting in my drawer is an utterly failed experimental aquatint that has potential to become an intriguing abstraction, so I think I’ll give that a shot next.

Megan Anderson Born and raised in Utah, my first print experiences took place while I was a BFA student in Photography at Utah State University. There I was exposed to traditional film and wet dark room processes as well as 19th century photographic methods. I fell in love with the process of coating the paper Megan Anderson, Nostalgia 1, polyester plate lithograph, 2013 with light sensitive emulsion and watching the image appear in the developer. I believe this love of process led me to printmaking

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Threshold Gallery

and later piqued my interest in collaborative printing. I ultimately received my BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design where I focused on lithography. The processes of preparing the stone, drawing on the surface, etching and rolling up the image, as well as proofing and editioning are what locked me into lithography. During this time I created a series of prints, I refer to as the Nostalgia body of work. This imagery still influences my current work. I used detailed wallpaper patterns and feminine legs to create an image-based vocabulary that speaks of women’s sexuality and plays on gender roles of a past era. The small size (5” x 7”) and contour line aesthetic I began to develop in these prints lent itself to polyester plate lithography. For this reason, much of my personal work since has been in this medium. My printmaking journey brought me to Highpoint first as a studio intern and later as a staff member — assistant printer in Ellen Wold, Circle Pines, reductive the professional shop. Working in the pro woodcut, 2014 shop at Highpoint cemented my interest in becoming a collaborative printer. I was Threads: fortunate enough to learn and work under the direction of master printer Cole Rogers A Family Connection and Senior Printer Zac Adams-Bliss. I recently traveled to the land of enchantment Opening in October 2014, this exhibit by The goal of Threshold Gallery is to feature (Albuquerque, NM) and received my Ellen Wold honors the life of her sister solo shows by HP’s co-op artists, presenting Professional Print certificate from the who suffered a major stroke one year ago. four exhibits annually. This intimate space Tamarind Institute, where I honed my skills Wold’s work in this show focuses on the allows artists the chance to organize a as a lithographer while furthering my passion threads that connect them as friends and “mini-show” of their prints, and personally for collaborative printing. Currently, I enjoy family: gardening, camping, and fabric arts. curate the space. the luxury of Highpoint’s facilities and Exhibited will be a series of woodblock and continue to create as a working member screen prints. and artist while maintaining the print skills I acquired at Tamarind.

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8 Fall/Winter 2014: Adult & Teen Classes and Workshops

Beginning Intaglio Plate and Photo Lithography

Dates: Tuesdays, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. October 7, 14, 21, 28, Dates: Tuesdays, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. November 4 and 11 November 18, 25, December 2, 9, 16 and 30 Saturday workshops: October 25 and November 15, Saturday workshops: December 6 and 20, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Ages: 18+; for beginning to intermediate students. Ages: 18+; for beginning to intermediate students Cost: $335 (10% discount for HP members) Cost: $335 (10% discount for HP members) Registration: Deadline is Monday, September 22 Registration: Deadline is Monday, November 3 Enrollment: Maximum 10; minimum 6 Enrollment: Maximum 10; minimum 6 Instructor: Josh Bindewald Instructor: Jeremy Lundquist

Are you curious about intaglio printmaking but have never had a Lithography is a fantastic medium for those who love drawing, but it’s chance to try it? Well then, Beginning Intaglio is the opportunity also extremely useful for incorporating photographic techniques. This you’ve been waiting for. This is an introductory intaglio course course will concentrate on instruction in hand drawn techniques on that will focus primarily on etching techniques using copper plates ball-grained aluminum plates and a wide variety of both hand-drawn and non-toxic ferric chloride solution. We will cover drypoint, line and digital film techniques on photographic plates. All methods of etch, aquatint (rosin, soft ground, spray paint, spit bite), multiple traditional lithographic drawing, including dry and wet media, can be plate registration as well as plate preparation, paper preparation executed on grained plates. Plus, unlike the extremely heavy slabs of and printing fundamentals. Students in this class will have the limestone used for stone lithography, plates are extremely portable opportunity to create a small, two-color image using any/all of the and afford an ease of processing. Photo Lithography is done on a techniques mentioned above. All skill levels welcome. plate that is pre-coated with a photographic emulsion. The learning curve for processing these plates is extremely short compared to About the Instructor: Josh Bindewald has been the Exhibitions other types of photographic printmaking. The overall process brings and Artists’ Cooperative Manager at Highpoint since 2012. He has a very hands-on approach to the printing of photographic imagery. an MFA in printmaking from Bradley University and a BFA from the It will also be possible to easily combine techniques, integrating University of -Stout. Josh primarily works with intaglio, but the hand-drawn with the photographic, as we will cover printing in dabbles with all print processes. multiple layers with color ink. The course is designed for both beginners and students who want to strengthen existing skills. Demonstrations will cover traditional and more recently developed techniques, complemented by instructor supported work time and the viewing of sample prints. In addition to technical skill, this course will focus on personal artistic development. Plates (limited number), ink, chemistry, tools, equipment and instructional/technical support are provided. Students will need to provide paper and some drawing materials as specified by the instructor after the first class.

About the instructor: Jeremy Lundquist was born in California, raised in the suburbs of Chicago and currently lives and works in St. Paul and Minneapolis. He has been an artist-in-residence at Ox- Bow, Harold Arts, Spudnik Press, Kala Art Institute and the Vermont Studio Center. His work has also been exhibited at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, the Chicago Cultural Center, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois – Chicago, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and additional venues nationally and internationally. This past year Jeremy was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa as the Grant Wood Fellow in Printmaking. For six years prior, he taught all forms of printmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. He received his BA in Studio Art from Grinnell College and his MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University. 9

Teens Screen Weekend Monoprinting Madness

Dates: Saturday and Sunday, October 11 – 12, Dates: Saturday, December 13, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Ages: 18+; All skill levels welcome Ages: Must be currently enrolled in high school; Cost: $115 (10% discount for HP members) all skill levels welcome Registration: Deadline is Monday, December 1 Cost: $225 (10% discount for HP members) Enrollment: Maximum 15; Minimum 6 Registration: Deadline is Monday, September 29 Instructor: Dana LeMoine Enrollment: Maximum 12; Minimum 6 Instructor: Dana LeMoine Monoprinting is one of the most versatile printing methods. It offers a plethora of mark-making techniques from painterly to graphic. A weekend at Highpoint just for teens! Love screenprinting but This day-long workshop will teach you everything you need to know don’t have a space to print? Never screenprinted, but interested in about how to make a monoprint. It will also cover some advanced learning the process? This class is for you! This workshop will lead techniques for those who have experience making monoprints or beginners through the basics of screen preparation and printing, those who are looking for a challenge, such as ghost printing and and will also include tips and tricks for those who are still learning multiple drop printing. We will use water soluble ink so clean up is the screenprinting process. Hand-drawn imagery is encouraged as a breeze; no solvents are used during this workshop. This class will no image-editing software will be available. Students should come have plenty of time for experimenting so come prepared with ideas! prepared with ideas for a 2-5 color print. The class will include time (note: 6 large sheets of printing paper 22“ x 30” and inks provided; for artists to talk through ideas, develop a multi-color print and have more paper can be purchased during class if needed) a group critique at the end. All supplies included. About the Instructor: Dana LeMoine is the Education and About the Instructor: Dana LeMoine is the Education and Community Programs Manager at Highpoint. She earned her MFA Community Programs Manager at Highpoint. She earned her MFA at Arizona State University and her BFA at UW – Madison, both in at Arizona State University and her BFA at UW-Madison, both in printmaking. Dana has been teaching art for over three years to printmaking. Dana has been teaching art for over three years to diverse audiences. Beginning at Arizona State University and the diverse audiences. Beginning at Arizona State University and the Mesa Art Center, she is excited to now be closer to her home in Mesa Art Center, she is excited to now be closer to her home in Wisconsin while continuing to pursue her passions of making and Wisconsin while continuing to pursue her passions of making and teaching how to make prints. teaching how to make prints.

To register for classes, call Highpoint at 612.871.1326 or email [email protected] Registrations are finalized upon receipt of payment. If payment is not received within one business week your place in the class will not be reserved. HIGHPOINTPRINTMAKING.ORG

10 Education & Community Programs Updates

Education Fellow Tyler Green with the Access/Prints teens

Spring has been very eventful in the School, Melissa Nyberg from Roseville High different backgrounds with different skillsets Education & Community Programs at School and Georgeann Byrd from Washburn who worked together to create some truly Highpoint: we’ve been hosting new High School. Their incredible work ethic led amazing pieces. partners, mentoring new teens, and to an impressive show, which also exhibited Highpoint is very excited about the exhibiting new work from hundreds of youth the work of our Fall A/P Members (Alice Hu, different programming that comes with and community artists who have visited Lydia Gutowsky and Emily Jablonski) and the summer. Summer is a time for more Highpoint throughout the year. many of our youth/community visitors from extended programming where youth and New partners this spring included our regular educational programming. community groups can visit for a whole Venture Academy and MERC Alternative The Spring 2014 Look/See Exhibition day or come back for repeated visits and High School. Venture Academy is a new was a huge success! Visitors were astonished students can build upon initial lessons and charter school whose mission is to ignite at the quality and amount of work our grow as a printmaker and artist. Groups the passion of all young people to become A/P teens completed, as well as the participating in this summer’s unique entrepreneurial learners and leaders who will variety of partnerships Highpoint has to programming included: Urban Arts Academy, change the world. Venture students spent offer. Over 300 prints adorned the walls 5 Centers youth and adult camps, Summer the day making detailed drypoint prints at allowing hundreds of young artists the Arts Academy through Buffalo High School Highpoint that were shown in our spring unique opportunity to exhibit their work in a and numerous Minneapolis Kids groups. exhibition. MERC is an alternative high school professional gallery and share their art with Highpoint Education programming whose emphasis is on attendance, respect family and friends. would not be possible without the help and setting goals for the future. MERC Highpoint also had the pleasure of of our amazing interns, mentors and students came to Highpoint to create colorful hosting a new session of Veterans in the fellows. Many thanks to our latest and expressive monoprints that were also Arts this spring. This year, six veterans Education Team: Emma Colón, Tyler featured in our annual student exhibition. participated in a nine-week program at Green, Bryn Gleason, Nan Onkka, Matt This year marked the 6th year of Highpoint. Veterans concentrated their time Nyberg, Claire Crews, Louise Edwards and Highpoint’s Access/Print Mentorship on screenprinting and woodcuts to produce Isabel Norsten for their incredible amount Program. This spring, Highpoint hosted a small editions of prints they could exhibit of time and energy! team of four teens: Lucia Sullivan Possehl in the future. This group of Vets created and Ruby Tresch from Southwest High a wonderful community of artists from 11

ACCESS/PRINT Project Highpoint’s Teen Program

Installing the 2014 youth exhibition

The A/P (Access/Print) Program at Highpoint media. The semester wraps up with each knowledge. Also, the mentors made all is an artist mentorship program for teens teen proposing their own project, which is types of printing accessible to various skill that happens in the fall and spring each completed with the guidance of the mentors. levels.” school year. The program is completely The teens’ final projects are exhibited free and open to high school students in in a group show in Highpoint’s galleries “I learned so much about printmaking that I grades 10-12. Teens across the metro area each spring. The work completed by our hope to use in the future. Also, the mentor/ can apply, and HP also pays for a bus pass if A/P Teens is often utilized in their college mentee relationship was great! With the transportation is needed. A/P meets twice a applications and many have won awards small group, we were all able to get a lot week for most of a semester and culminates with the amazing work they complete during of hands on time printing and time to talk with a professional exhibition of the teens’ this program. things out with the mentors.” work in Highpoint’s galleries. The program is led by two artist mentors who are pros at And, what do the teens think? If you know any teens who might be printmaking and highly skilled at helping “The program exceeded my expectations! I interested in this program, please teens reach their potential. The semester didn’t think we would get to use such cool encourage them to apply! The begins with an overview of a variety of and professional equipment or get as much Fall 2014 application deadline is printmaking techniques, with exercises in free reign over our projects as we did.” Monday, September 15. You can find each. Following the introductory sessions, applications at Highpoint or online at the teens get the opportunity to experiment “I learned about various types of printing highpointprintmaking.org/ap. with their own ideas in different printed which expanded my skill level and HIGHPOINTPRINTMAKING.ORG

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Highpoint’s Current Members: You Make it Possible!

Searcy and John Lillehei Pamela Carberry and Julie Matonich and Rob Bras Ed Ehrenwald Carla McGrath and Cole Rogers Lois Carlson Richard and Deborah McNeil Kristin Cheronis Kim and Tim Montgomery Wendy and David Coggins Kate and David Mortenson Jay Coogan and David Zucco and Justin Newhall Kathleen Pletcher Michael and Pam Nightingale Jonathan and Jennifer Crump Todd Norsten and Leslie Cohan Craig Daniels John Pearson Ric Davies Heather Plank Marjorie Devon Nora Plesofsky Michael DiBlasi Peter and Annie Remes Jil Evans and Charles Taliaferro Cathy Ryan and Doris Engibous Carole Fisher Al Sedgwick Kathleen Fluegel Richard Scott and Nate and Trissa Garvis As of July 31, 2014 Dale Vanden Houten Mark Gittleman and Olga Viso and Cameron Gainer Debra Oberman Collector ($1000+) Michael Peterman and Joanne W Von Blon Sally Gordon and Gallen Benson Catherine C. Andrus David Wilson Ronnie and Larry Greenberg Elizabeth Andrus and Jennifer and Charlie Phelps Limited Edition ($250 – $499) Esequiel Guzman and Dr. Roby Thompson Alan Polsky Darren Acheson and Randy Blase Bruce and Martha Atwater Doug and Sharon Pugh Carol Peterson Ann and David Heider Daniel Avchen and Molly Rice and Dan Priebe Karl and Rosemarie Bethke Dorothy J. Horns and David Johnson Jeff Ross Hope Cook James P. Richardson Colleen Carey and Molly and Ty Schlobohm Patti Goldberg Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Pamela Endean Joan Schoepke Wendy Holmes and David Frank Dennis Michael Jon Ellie Crosby Helene and Jeff Slocum Julie and Tommy Johns Kent A. Kapplinger James and Megan Dayton Doug Snyder Lyndel and Blaine King Martha and Michael Koch Judy Dayton Richard and Claudia Swager Jeff and Jennifer Klinefelter Barbara Longfellow Scott Dayton Neely and Steven Tamminga Sally and Jonathan Lebedoff Charles Lyon, II and Toby and Mae Dayton Clara Ueland and Katherine C. Moore in honor of Rebecca Lyon Vanessa Dayton, in honor of Walter McCarthy David Moore, Jr. and Rachel Matney Elly Dayton Grace Amy Walsh Kern and Mitch Kern Leni D. Moore Rachel McGarry Lisa and Pat Denzer Fred and Eleanor Winston Khanh N. Nguyen Laura and Charles Miller Mary C. Dolan Margaret and Angus Wurtele Brian and Julia Palmer Clarence and Arlene Morgan Ross Fefercorn Brian Pietsch Kelly Munson Elly Dayton Grace Special Edition ($500 – $999) John Rasmussen and Katherine and Katherine D.R. and Jim Hayes Beth Bergman Megan McCready Kingsley H. Murphy Jr. (Hayes Fund of HRK) Kerrie Blevins and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Remele Susan Murphy Rob and Alyssa Hunter Michael Walstrom James Rustad Sandra Nelson Mr. and Mrs. James Kaufman Tony Branfort John Skogmo and Tom Morin Samuel and Cynthia Orbovich Katharine Kelly Joan and Robert Dayton Christopher Stevens Tom Owens and Stephanie Prem Armin Kunz Martha Dayton and Tom Nelson Nancy and David Warner Mary and John Pappajohn Nivin MacMillan Mary Lou and Tom Detwiler Frederick and Adele Pulitzer Jennifer Martin Siri Engberg and Marty Broan First Edition ($100 – $249) Larry Redmond Don McNeil and Emily Galusha Kaywin Feldman and Jim Lutz Kinji Akagawa and Robert Reed Bob and Mary Mersky Gretchen and Doug Gildner Nancy Gipple Rachel Resnik Lucy and Robert Mitchell Curt and Catherine Gunsbury Rebecca Alm Ripple River Gallery Tim and Debby Moore Roger Hale and Nor Hall Tom Arneson Tina and Dan Rivkin David Moore, Jr. and Jule and Betsy Hannaford Thomas Barry Michael Robins Leni D. Moore Randy Hartten and Ron Lotz Kim Bartmann John Saurer and Christie Hawkins Sheila C. Morgan David W. Kiehl Lynn Bollman Marc Schwartz 13

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14 Jerome Emerging Printmakers Program Updates & News

The 2013-2014 Jerome Emerging Printmakers at work

All three of HP’s 2013-2014 Jerome area printshops like MCAD and Highpoint. she was a resident. Many examples of these Emerging Printmakers — Hend Al-Mansour, She then arranged these objects into a processes were on display in the exhibition Michael Gordon, and Lindsay Splichal — took site-specific installation that was at once including an image that was screenprinted great risks by launching into challenging, overwhelming yet ordered and rewarding to directly onto the gallery wall and an intaglio novel and time-consuming projects. Judging interact with. print that was pulled from a plate that was by the art on view in their group exhibition Michael Gordon’s innovative intaglio professionally cut into a specific set of this May, the risks paid off greatly. prints were display in Gallery A along with shapes. Viewers appreciated the frankness Attendance was bonkers for the one of the plates he used to print from and of Hend’s colorful images that paired opening reception held May 23. New to sculptural wall piece. In Gallery B, Mike intricate text with decorative and figurative the program this year, each of the residents hung the 4 additional plates and a massive imagery. delivered some remarks to the audience blind embossment that was a study in subtle Highpoint is excited to welcome a new about their process and the work on display. beauty. Mike’s prints were pulled from batch of Jerome Residents this fall. The next This was a great way to generate additional “plates” that were actually casts he made group will be announced in late August and interest and gave attendees added insight of architectural ruins on-site at a former brick will begin their residency right after Labor into the thought-provoking work the factory in Lilydale. The resulting prints were Day. A special thanks once again to the residents made. embedded with the history of the space 2013/2014 jurors Chris Larson and Rachel Hanging from the walls and ceiling, and looked exquisite hanging in glassless McGarry, as well as critique guests Bryan sitting on the floor and atop shelves in frames. Ritchie, Jennifer Phelps, Chris Larson and Gallery B was a collection of printed objects Although she was quite prolific during Rachel McGarry. by Lindsay Splichal. Instead of “print as the residency, Hend Al-Mansour pared object,” this was more like “print onto her body of work down substantially for printmaking-related object.” With oil-based exhibition, opting to show only her most black and white screenprinting inks, Lindsay recent works. Hend was determined to learn printed repeating linear patterns onto and try many printmaking techniques that discarded objects and reject materials from she had no previous experience with while 15

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September

Stand Out Prints: Highpoint’s International Juried Exhibition Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. On View: September 5 – October 4

October

Luddite: New Prints by Aaron Spangler, published by Highpoint Editions Opening Reception: Friday, October 10, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. On View: October 10 – November 15, 2014

November

Free Ink Day: Día de los Muertos Saturday, November 1, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Highpoint members receive a 10% discount on most classes! Bring family and friends to take part in this annual HP tradition — free for all ages! Members also enjoy invitations to special events, a subscription to this newsletter, and other benefits listed below. Member support is integral to Highpoint’s programs and helps keep Special Event: FIVE–HP’s our galleries free and open for all. Building Birthday Bash To join or renew your membership, visit our website at highpointprintmaking.org or call Saturday, November 22, 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. 612.871.1326. Thank you for your support! See page 2 for details

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